Adolph blome



(No Model.)

A.BLOME. SGRAP BOOK.

No. 537,599. Patented Apr. 16,1895.

Nr'rnn STATES" PATENT 'rrrcs.

ADOLPH BLOMEQOF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO IDA BLOME, OF SAME PLACE.

SCRAP-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 537,599, dated April 16, 1895. Application filed May 15, 1393. Serial No. 474,216. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLPH BLOME, of the city of Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scrap-Books, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a scrap-book which shall be durable, cheap and easy to manufacture, and adapted to contain a greater number or quantity of scraps such as invoices, prescriptions, letters, newspaper clipppings, 850., within each section of the several sections or signatures of which the book is constructed, than any scrap-book heretofore made and used; and my invention also relates to a novel method of manufacturing the guard or back-piece.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, Figure 1 represents a machine or device by means of which or on which the guard or back-piece is constructed. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a guard or back-piece constructed according to myinvention. Fig 3 is a perspective view partly broken away of one of the interposed strips or bars; and Fig. A is a perspective view of a scrap-book constructed according to and embodying my invention.

A is a base-plate of metal or other suitable material from which rise any number of uprights or standards B, which uprights or standards may be cast with the base-plate A or made separately, and afterward securely fastened thereto; and these standards may be of any desired size,length, height and thickness, and arranged on the plate A at any desired distance apart accordingto the character and size of the book to which the guard is intended to be attached, or of which the guard is to form a part, and any number of standards may be used. This device or die may be located in any desired place, and may be secured to a platform, table or the like on which it rests by means of the screws C, which pass through openings in the extending ends of the base-plate A, as shown in Fig. 1.

I make the guard or back-piece shown in Fig. 2 with or on the device shown in Fig. l as follows;-On the top of the standards B, I lay a piece, strip or sheet D of paper, linen, muslin or other fibrous, textile or suitable strips or bars F, as shown in Fig. 8, of any suitable material, as paste-board, wood or other material and which pieces, strips or bars are made of substantially such size as will fit the spaces or grooves between the uprights B and continuing the operation until all. of the spaces between the uprights B are filled, I thereby force the superimposed strip D between the several uprights by as many sepa rate bars or strips F as there may be spaces, whereby the spaces between the uprights will be filled with the bars F and the surrounding strip D, to which strip D the bars will adhere and become fastened or attached or stuck by means of the glue, paste or other adhesive substance that has been applied to the strip as before stated; and after allowing said strip with the surrounding sheet D to remain in the machine or die shown in Fig. 1 for a sufficient length of time for the glue or other adhesive material to harden or set, I lift the whole structure which is then in the die, comprising the sheet D and the strips F, from or out of the die of which it will form a counterpart, and it will then be of the character shown in Fig. 2, consisting of alternate tongues T and grooves S, comprising the guard or back-piece of the book; or the sheet may first be folded on the die shown and described or in any other man ner, and the bars F afterward inserted in the folds of the folded sheet and secured therein by glue or other adhesive substance that may have been applied thereto, producing a guard like that shown in Fig. 2, to which the sigma tures may be united.

While I have used the word sheet D as referring to a single sheet of material, it is to be understood that any number of such sheets may be secured together by suitable adhesive substance forming several plies or thicknesses which may be laid across thetops of the standards Band adhesive substance appliedto the upper surface thereof, and the bars F pressed down between the several uprights in the manner just above explained, and in Fig. 2 I have illustrated a guard or back-piece constructed according to my invention and made on the device'shownin Fig. 1, using two sheets, 7

s aces as will e readily un erstand. 7

Thus I an} enabled to pr dheea verysn-hhg guard '01- back-"piece, which is ver quickly,

easily and eheaply'm'an'u factn re'd considering I the element of time employed within which to construct it. This guard can then be at t'ach'ed to the several sections or signatures in any convenient manner, bysewihg the;

severalsections "or si natures H to the-sheet D or combined sheets at the -piaesor pornh s thereof desig ated at I in Fig. 2, which are located between the se era ehveihp d bar's F or tohghes ftvill as readily unders and from that figure, the sections being inserted between the ton ues T or enveloped bars F,

the vthread assing through the this "hf the folded leaves comprising the signatures and through the sheet D or "sheets D ahn G at the portions I of the guard, in the usual manner; and the 'e'xtend'ing ends of the guar may then be securely attached to the covers K "of the book "in any convenient anner, and the covers then wrapped with paper, Ieather, cloth and the like as desired, the extending edges being fastenedeither on the outside or inside of each cover-board, or between the coverboards where two boards are used for "each cover, as shown in Fig.4; Thus by m invention I am e 'able'dtoproduce a book of "any desired thi'cknesssince according to the thickness desirdI se-a die, having any numbe'rof standards, or for'afsmall book I canemplo'y ap'ort'ion of thestandardfs,

leaving the others for use withalarger book, as will be readily understood. Then again I am enabled to produce a book having a gt'iard or back-piece of anyd'esir'eddepthgaccording to the p11 rpo'sedesired, and to'con'stru'ct which I use a die in which the standards shat-1 be of the proper desired height, and 'ofe du-r's'e the bars B will in that event he made or a corresponding height; and agai-n-Iam'enabled to produce a book whereby thespacehetweeh the several sections orsign'atu're's'at thehack of the book 'may be of "anydefsi-red e'xt'entor width accordin g as the space between the uprights 13, and according as to which space ber a y. thi b tweei'l the 11 p1ri'gh't's B-,at the same time pressing the combined sheets D and G between the j tweien'the uprights B will be the thickness of the bars F which are to be pressed therein as before explained; and all of which advantages of depth of back-piece or guard and space between the sections and corresponding thickness of bar sli can beattained in one book and the features {if being enabled to make the guard of any desired depth and the space between the sections of any desired amount are very desirable and of great advantage in a scrap-book, since a greater number of loose scraps, as invoices, checks, prescriptions, clippings, the, may be secured or stuck to each leaf of the several, sections or signatures, and the thickness of the book with the scraps applied, will not be greater at the front than the thickness of the book at the back, as is very frequently the case with scrap-books; *afnda'gain, where the guard made deep, as shew-n in Fig.4,t1re several sections with the scraps attached to the leaves, ihakin the several leaves heavy, will not become as readily Ldeta'ehed from the guard as there is greater flexibility in the handling of the book and the turning of the separate sections or leaves, and whereby the guard will not be as liable to be" the broken, as also not infrequently happens. u

For'eonve'niehce of the sewers the guard may be constructed in sections, the ends of "the seveialsections being united together forming when united one "continuous guard like that shown in Fig. 2.

I do not limit my invention to any particular sneer character of book, not to the purpose for which said book may be used; north I l iihit rny invention to any particular char actor of materials of which the guard may be "constructed nor to the precise order of operations in fcarryingfout my improved method or process, nor to the 'preci'sedetail'of the'o'pe'ration's hereinb'efore described, but

7 What Icl'aim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1. As an improved product the herein described guard or back -piece for books consist 'ing of 'a she'et formed in reverse folds, and narrow and deepb'a'rs or strips F in the alternate fold's'thereof arranged with their wide faces facing each other, said sheet being tightly and smoothly secured by adhesive material upon said bars or strips F on the opposite side faces of said bars and on one edge of feach'of saidbars and oneseries of folds of the said fold e'dstri'p contaihi n g said bars and th e 'otheradapted to contain the signatures, substantially as set forth.

2. The method "of manufacturing a guard or back piece for books which consists in pressingfa "sheet of suitable material 'into the grooves "or s aces between the uprights or "standa rds'of a die by separate bars which are adapted to fit into said grooves so as to produce a folded sheet the counterpart of the die,

and causing "said bars toadhere to said sheet,

substantiall-ya's set forth.

3. The method of manufacturing a guard IIO or back-piece for books which consists in applying adhesive substance to the surface of a sheet of material and pressing said material into the grooves or spaces between the uprights or standards of a die by separate bars which are adapted to fit into said grooves or spaces so as to produce a guard or back-piece out of said strip conformed into alternate tongues and grooves, the counterpart of the die, the tongues being created by the bars which have been used to press the strip into the grooves in the die, and which bars are socurely held in the folds or grooves of said sheet by means of the adhesive substance that has been applied thereto, substantially as set forth.

4. The method of manufacturing a book which consists in producing a guard or backpieoe consisting of alternate tongues and grooves by pressing a sheet of material into the grooves or spaces between the uprights or standards of a die by means of separate bars which are adapted to fit into said grooves or spaces in said die over or onto said sheet, and uniting the bars and sheet and then removing the guard so made from the die of which die the guard will be the counterpart and then securely uniting the several sections or signatures of the book to the several portions of the folded sheet located between the tongues, and then attaching the unfolded ends of the sheet ,to the covers of the book, substantially as set forth.

5. The method of manufacturing a guard ADOLPH BLOME.

In presence of-= E. M. TAYLOR, M. GIBSON. 

